The world’s first “Sky Pool” has been uncoated(曝光)-and it’ll give anyone a touch of dizziness(眩晕), unless he or she is not bothered by heights.
Situated in the capital’s new riverside district beside Battersea Power Station, the glass pool, hanging 10 storeys, or 110 feet up as a bridge between two apartment buildings, is 25m long, 5m wide and 3m deep with a water depth of 1.2m. Swimmers will be able to look down 35 meters to the street below as they take a dip, with only 20cm of glass between them and the outside world. It’s even got a bar, folding chairs and an orange garden.
The pool will be part of Embassy Gardens at Nine Elms, a huge£15 billion building project beside the new American Embassy in south-west London. The project is creating thousands of apartments, the smallest of which are expected to cost nearly $1 million, and the pool will only be open to the apartments’ owners.
Embassy Gardens takes design inspiration from the Meatpacking District of New York with floor to ceiling windows and brick frontages. The designer, Sean Mulryan, desired to push the boundaries in the capability of construction and engineering and do something that had never been done before. The Sky Pool’s transparent structure is the result of significant advancements in technologies over the last decade.
The experience of the pool will be truly unique and it will feel like floating through the air in central London.
Those people lucky enough to swim there will have a perfect view of the Palace of Westminster and the London Eye. It will be a selling point for developers when the second stage of the development is released to market.
1.Who can swim in the Sky Pool?
A. Anyone at Nine Elms.
B. Visitors to London.
C. People living in Embassy Gardens.
D. Those who are not terrified of heights.
2.People lucky enough to swim in the Sky Pool can do the following except.
A. drinking with friends.
B. experiencing diving and surfing.
C. appreciating the London Eye.
D. sitting in the orange garden.
3.What do we know from the text?
A. The pool lies in the centre of London.
B. The pool is 25 metres above the ground.
C. The pool was similar to New York’s modern constructions.
D. The pool is helpful for selling apartments in Embassy Gardens.
4.We can infer from the text that.
A. the apartments in Embassy Gardens are fairly expensive.
B. the new American Embassy has been moved away.
C. Nine Elms is a street in Embassy Gardens.
D. building the pool is not a complex job.
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The world’s first “Sky Pool” has been uncoated(曝光)-and it’ll give anyone a touch of dizziness(眩晕), unless he or she is not bothered by heights.
Situated in the capital’s new riverside district beside Battersea Power Station, the glass pool, hanging 10 storeys, or 110 feet up as a bridge between two apartment buildings, is 25m long, 5m wide and 3m deep with a water depth of 1.2m. Swimmers will be able to look down 35 meters to the street below as they take a dip, with only 20cm of glass between them and the outside world. It’s even got a bar, folding chairs and an orange garden.
The pool will be part of Embassy Gardens at Nine Elms, a huge£15 billion building project beside the new American Embassy in south-west London. The project is creating thousands of apartments, the smallest of which are expected to cost nearly $1 million, and the pool will only be open to the apartments’ owners.
Embassy Gardens takes design inspiration from the Meatpacking District of New York with floor to ceiling windows and brick frontages. The designer, Sean Mulryan, desired to push the boundaries in the capability of construction and engineering and do something that had never been done before. The Sky Pool’s transparent structure is the result of significant advancements in technologies over the last decade.
The experience of the pool will be truly unique and it will feel like floating through the air in central London.
Those people lucky enough to swim there will have a perfect view of the Palace of Westminster and the London Eye. It will be a selling point for developers when the second stage of the development is released to market.
1.Who can swim in the Sky Pool?
A. Anyone at Nine Elms.
B. Visitors to London.
C. People living in Embassy Gardens.
D. Those who are not terrified of heights.
2.People lucky enough to swim in the Sky Pool can do the following except.
A. drinking with friends.
B. experiencing diving and surfing.
C. appreciating the London Eye.
D. sitting in the orange garden.
3.What do we know from the text?
A. The pool lies in the centre of London.
B. The pool is 25 metres above the ground.
C. The pool was similar to New York’s modern constructions.
D. The pool is helpful for selling apartments in Embassy Gardens.
4.We can infer from the text that.
A. the apartments in Embassy Gardens are fairly expensive.
B. the new American Embassy has been moved away.
C. Nine Elms is a street in Embassy Gardens.
D. building the pool is not a complex job.
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The world’s first “Sky Pool” has been uncoated(曝光)-and it’ll give anyone a touch of dizziness(眩晕), unless he or she is not bothered by heights.
Situated in the capital’s new riverside district beside Battersea Power Station, the glass pool, hanging 10 storeys, or 110 feet up as a bridge between two apartment buildings, is 25m long, 5m wide and 3m deep with a water depth of 1. 2m. Swimmers will be able to look down 35 meters to the street below as they take a dip, with only 20cm of glass between them and the outside world. It’s even got a bar, folding chairs and an orange garden.
The pool will be part of Embassy Gardens at Nine Elms, a huge£15 billion building project beside the new American Embassy in south-west London. The project is creating thousands of apartments, the smallest of which are expected to cost nearly $1 million, and the pool will only be open to the apartments’ owners.
Embassy Gardens takes design inspiration from the Meatpacking District of New York with floor to ceiling windows and brick frontages. The designer, Sean Mulryan, desired to push the boundaries in the capability of construction and engineering and do something that had never been done before. The Sky Pool’s transparent structure is the result of significant advancements in technologies over the last decade.
The experience of the pool will be truly unique and it will feel like floating through the air in central London.
Those people lucky enough to swim there will have a perfect view of the Palace of Westminster and the London Eye. It will be a selling point for developers when the second stage of the development is released to market.
1.Who can swim in the Sky Pool?
A. Anyone at Nine Elms.
B. Visitors to London.
C. People living in Embassy Gardens.
D. Those who are not terrified of heights.
2.People lucky enough to swim in the Sky Pool can do the following except .
A. drinking with friends B. experiencing diving and surfing
C. appreciating the London Eye D. sitting in the orange garden
3.What do we know from the text?
A. The pool lies in the centre of London.
B. The pool is 25 metres above the ground.
C. The pool was similar to New York’s modern constructions.
D. The pool is helpful for selling apartments in Embassy Gardens.
4.We can infer from the text that ________ .
A. the apartments in Embassy Gardens are fairly expensive
B. the new American Embassy has been moved away
C. Nine Elms is a street in Embassy Gardens
D. building the pool is not a complex job
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The world’s first “Sky Pool” has been uncoated-and it’ll give anyone a touch of dizzi-ness, unless he or she is not bothered by heights.
Situated in the capital’s new riverside district beside Battersea Power Station, the glass pool, hanging 10 storeys, or 110 feet up as a bridge between two apartment buildings, is 25m long, 5m wide and 3m deep with a water depth of 1. 2m. Swimmers will be able to look down 35 metres to the street below as they take a dip, with only 20cm of glass between them and the outside world It’s even got a bar, folding chairs and an orange garden.
The pool will be part of Embassy Gardens at Nine Elms, a huge billion building pro-ject beside the new American Embassy in south-west London. The project is creating thou-sands of apartments, the smallest of which are expected to cost nearly $ 1 million, and the pool will only be open to the apartments’ owners.
Embassy Gardens takes design inspiration from the Meatpacking District of New York with floor to ceiling windows and brick frontages. The designer, Sean Mulryan, desired to push the boundaries in the capability of construction and engineering and do something that had never been done before. The Sky Pool’s transparent structure is the result of significant advancements in technologies over the last decade.
The experience of the pool will be truly unique and it will feel like floating through the air in central London.
Those people lucky enough to swim there will have a faultless view of the Palace of West-minster and the London Eye. It will be a selling point for developers when the second stage of the development is released to market.
1.Who can swim in the Sky Pool?
A. Anyone at Nine Elms. B. Visitors to London.
C. People living in Embassy Gardens. D. Those who are not terrified of heights.
2.People lucky enough to swim in the Sky Pool can do the following except .
A. drinking with friends B. sitting in the orange garden
C. appreciating the London Eye D. experiencing diving and surfing
3.What do we know from the text?
A. The pool is 25 metres above the ground.
B. The pool was similar to New York’s modern constructions.
C. The pool lies in the centre of London.
D. The pool is helpful for selling apartments in Embassy Gardens.
4.We can infer from the text that .
A. The apartments of Embassy Garden are fairly expensive
B. the new American Embassy has been moved away
C. Nine Elms is a street in Embassy Gardens
D. building the pool is not a complex job
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The world-famous 5-star hotel has its own pool and ____leisure facilities, designed
with the disabled in ____mind.
A. /; the B. the; a C. /; / D. the; /
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The tornado came without any sign—the sky was blue and the sun had been out. The first alert my husband, Jimmy, 67, and I, 65, got came around 9 p.m., from some scrolling text on the TV Jimmy was watching. He ran upstairs to find me in our third-floor bedroom, and we changed the channel to our local Pensacola, Florida, station.
No sooner had we found coverage of the tornado than it was on top of us. The bones of the house shook, and the power went out. Pink insulation(绝缘材料) flew into the room from a trapdoor to the attic, and the wind began to roar through the house. We had three flights of steps to navigate to get to the relative safety of the first floor. Because the closet down there is wedged (塞进) underneath a brick staircase, it seemed like the sturdiest(坚固的) place in our town house to wait things out.
I didn’t know how or if we would make it down the steps. It felt as if there were no floor underneath me as the wind lifted me off my feet. I gripped the banister(楼梯扶手) and tried to move forward, but this intense pressure held me in place. In those seconds of stillness, I could hear everything around me rattling.
As we reached the last flight of steps, our front door blew out. Shards of glass that looked like broken ice flew everywhere. Suddenly, a three-foot-long tree branch whipped through the doorframe. It flew over our heads, missing us by inches. Had we been one step up, it would have impaled us. The back wall of the house followed suit and tore off into the darkness outside.
Instantly I reached the closet, Jimmy pushed me down to the closet floor, but he couldn’t get inside himself because of the wind. I gripped Jimmy’s arm as the tornado sucked the door open and tried to bring Jimmy with it. My knees and scalp were full of glass, but in that moment, I felt no pain. If I had let go, Jimmy would have flown right out and into the bay. “Hold on! Hold on!” he yelled. But there was nothing in this closet to hold on to.
All of a sudden, Jimmy lifted off his feet like people in tornadoes do in the movies. I thought he was gone. And then everything stopped. He landed on his feet. In those first quiet moments, I couldn’t believe it was over. Jimmy said he’d go outside to check. “No,” I said. “Don’t leave me.”
Our neighbor says the storm lasted four minutes. In that time, four of the twelve town houses in our unit were completely destroyed. Of the houses left standing, ours suffered the most damage. Amazingly, none of us were severely injured.
1.Paragraph 2—4 mainly tell us______.
A. the tornado was on top of us
B. the tornado caused great damage
C. the coverage of the tornado became a reality
D. the tornado was so strong that it lifted the author off her feet
2.The underlined words “this intense pressure” in Paragraph 3 refer to______.
A. the author’s nervousness about the tornado
B. the force from the tornado on the author
C. the stress the author felt from her life
D. the pressure the banister gave the author
3.From the passage we can know that ______.
A. Neither the author nor her husband was injured.
B. the author’s house was completely destroyed.
C. they were aware of the tornado before it came.
D. it became dark outside when the tornado hit the town
4.The author wrote the passage to _______.
A. share with us her experience of surviving a tornado
B. warn us of the danger caused by tornados
C. show us how to fight against a tornado
D. tell us tornados are dangerous and how to protect us from them
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Has been a dream for 30 years but now the world’s first flying car is set to hit the roads this year.
Ever since the “Back to the Future” movies lit up our screens in the 1980s, designers have dreamt of cars that could take to the sky at the push of a button(按钮). And now pilots can order their own “roadable” plane for just£127, 000.
The plane, which has fold-out wings that span 17. 5 feet, can be up to 115 mph. Back on the land, it can also travel at “highway speeds” in car mode(模式).
Fuelling(加燃料)the 19 feet long plane couldn’t be simpler—you just drive it into a petrol station and fill it up.
A spokeswoman said, “You can keep your ‘light-sport airplane’ in your garage. But because it needs a short runway to take to the air, you will have to drive to your local airport, fly up to 460 miles, land and drive directly to your destination(目的地). You will always be ready to drive or fly. ”
The spokeswoman added, “Never let bad weather change your trip. You can simply divert(使转向)and continue on the ground until the weather clears. ”
There’s no risk to you—this is only the chance for you to be the first at your home field to unfold(展开)your wings and fly into the future.
1.According to the text, the “roadable” plane .
A. can fly in the sky at “highway speeds” in car mode
B. is a kind of car with fold-out wings
C. is a little difficult to fuel
D. can only travel on the highway
2.We can infer that in the “Back to the Future” movies .
A. there are some skillful pilots
B. pilots have no cars to drive
C. pilots can’t afford a “roadable” plane
D. cars can fly in the sky
3.What does the underlined word “it” in the 5th paragraph refer to?
A. Light-sport airplane.
B. Your garage.
C. The local airport.
D. A petrol station.
4.The last sentence of the text aims to .
A. call for people to buy the “roadable” plane
B. show people the use of the “roadable” plane
C. tell people only the “roadable” plane can fly in the future
D. ask people to unfold their wings and fly into the future
5.If you meet with a thunderstorm in your “roadable” plane in the skies, you can .
A. land in a nearby airport until it clears
B. turn back home until it clears
C. land and drive on the ground
D. fly high up to 460 miles
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The world's first flying car has been ________ for sale at £800,000 by Courtesy Aircraft of the US.
A.taken up B.put up
C.pulled up D.made up
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阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
The First World War postcard has1.(final) been sent after many years. It is a very old postcard. This postcard was from a 19-year old soldier, Alfred, during the First World War. He2.(write) this postcard and sent it to his lovely sister Nell3.January 1916. The postcard is dated 1916 and4.is a cartoon picture of a new solider on the front.
Alfred has written to his sister, “Dear Nell, just5.postcard to let you know I have not forgotten you. On the other side you will see our orders for next week. I will need your pity. Write to me, your brother Alfred.” Sadly, Alfred6.(kill) in a flight in 1918 before the card arrived. 7.(year) later, his sister died in 1964.
The postcard is marked 1916 and again September 2010 when it was stamped to arrive. But the postman couldn’t find the8.(receive) any more. The post office said it was out of the question that the card was with9.(they) all the time. They regularly cleaned out their offices and post boxes. The10.(postcard) history for the last 94 years is still a mystery.
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She has been teased,stared at in the street,and called“the world’s ugliest woman” by cyber bullies(网络地痞).Lizzie Velasquez of Austin,Texas,was born without adipose tissue(肌肉组织)meaning that she has no body fat,and,despite eating up to 60 small meals a day,remains a delicate 27 kilos.The rare condition is thought to affect just two other people worldwide.
Miss Velasquez has now written a second book about her struggle to be accepted,and hopes it will help others in a similar position.In Be Beautiful.Be You the college student shares advice on being unique.how to make and keep good friends,and how to deal with bullying and other negativity.When asked how she deals with being constantly stared at in the street, Miss Velasquez says,“I always go up to these people and introduce myself,or give them my card and say,‘Hi,I’m Lizzie--maybe you should stop staring and start learning.’”
Miss Velasquez says when cyber bullies first started attacking her online it was hard. Eventually she realized that the people mocking her online were just cowards hiding behind a computer screen.
“Lizzie was born four weeks prematurely.Doctors told us they had no idea if she would survive.”Miss Velasquez’s mother Rita says.“They told us she would never be able to walk,talk or have a norma1 life.”Rita Velasquez has two other daughters,and both of them are of average height and weight. When Lizzie was four,doctors discovered she had gone blind in one eye.
Miss Velasquez’s case has fascinated doctors all over the world,and she is part of a genetic study run by Professor Abhimanyu Garg.Professor Garg and his team now believe Miss Velasquez may have a form of Neonatal Progeroid Syndrome(NPS),which causes accelerated aging and fat loss from the face and body" People with NPS often have prematurely aged faces and pointy(尖的) noses
1.What can we learn about Miss Velasquez?
A. She is a college student
B. Her siblings have the same condition as her·
C. Her appetite is smaller than that of healthy people-
D. She has published two novels popular with students·
2.Which of the following is a characteristic of NPS?
A. Inability to walk B. A prematurely aged face
C. Blindness D. A flat nose
3.Which of the following words can replace the underlined word“mocking”?
A. teasing B. copying
C. loving D. hating
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SHANGHAI: The Transportation Information System for 2010 Shanghai World Expo has been completed and put into trial operation, officials said yesterday.
The system which consists of three sub-systems will provide seven options to receive transportation information, including websites, transportation guides, radio and TV broadcasting, hotlines, message signs, mobile phone and enquiry machines, to satisfy tourists’ requirements for transport information in the Expo garden and around the city at all time.
Option 1: Official site for Expo traffic information
Inspired by Aichi Expo and the Beijing Olympic Games, the Shanghai event will also launch its official website of traffic information, www.jtcx.sh.cn.Mobile phone users can log on to www.jtcx.sh.cn/m.The website delivers daily traffic information as well as travel guide around Expo garden, and advocate using public transport during the event.
Option 2: Expo Transportation guide
Two portable travel guides were produced for the convenience of tourists in the Yangtze River Delta.
One mainly targets visitors from the 19 prefecture-level cities of the Yangtze River Delta.The map introduces information of intercity coach lines, car parks, subway transfers.It will be distributed free at highway tolls and is also available for download on the website.
The other one focuses on visitors in Shanghai.The map will detail the various entries leading to the Expo site, as well as bus stops and subway stations around the city.The introduction of over 90 bus lines connecting the Expo garden to the rest of the city will also be listed.The map will be available at hotels, railway stations, airports and residential areas.
Option 3: Radio and television broadcasts
Visitors can also get updated traffic information at home or on their mobile devices as the Shanghai Traffic information center will broadcast live traffic condition via radio and TV during the event, so that travelers can adjust their travel plan accordingly.
Option 4: Expo transport hotline
If radio and television broadcasts can not meet your needs of traffic information, organizers in Shanghai have also set up a special hotline for Expo traffic enquiries.There will be two hotline numbers 962010 and 12319 at your service twenty-four hours.
Option 5: Variable message signs
For drivers the variable message signs will become the first choice to access to traffic information.During the Expo, the signs will play an important role in helping drivers to receive traffic flow, speed, models and other information, as well as traffic incidents and road closure information, so as to avoid congestion.
Option 6: Mobile phone browsers and taxi terminals
Visitors can obtain real-time traffic conditions via mobile phone browsers.Traffic information will also be provided to car mounted terminals on the 4,000 Expo taxis, which will enable drivers to have timely access to real-time status on roads.
Option 7: Touch screen enquiry machine
As for visitors who stay at hotels who are unfamiliar with the place, the tourism bureau have set up in more than four hundred 3-star hotels the Tourist Information enquiry machine.Visitors can check at terminal routes to Expo garden from the hotels.
1.Which of the following is the best title of the passage above?
A.Seven ways to get Expo transportation info
B.Information on the move
C.Transportation on the way
D.Shanghai and Expo
2.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A.Visitors can get the map of Shanghai Expo Transportation free of charge.
B.Visitors have access to the hotline of Expo traffic enquires only at night.
C.Traffic drivers will be well informed of the traffic conditions on the road.
D.Not all the 3-star hotels are equipped with the screen enquiry machines.
3.The underlined word “congestion” probably means ____.
A.squeeze B.jam C.noise D.mess
4.During the Shanghai Expo, tourists can know the traffic information in the following way EXCEPT ____.
A.TV B.Radio C.Internet D.Magazine
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